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Numbers 21:29-31
New English Translation
Numbers 21:29-31
New English Translation
29 Woe to you, Moab.
You are ruined, O people of Chemosh![a]
He has made his sons fugitives,
and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.
30 We have overpowered them;[b]
Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon.
We have shattered them as far as Nophah,
which[c] reaches to Medeba.”
31 So the Israelites[d] lived in the land of the Amorites.
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- Numbers 21:29 sn The note of holy war emerges here as the victory is a victory over the local gods as well as over the people.
- Numbers 21:30 tc The first verb is difficult. MT has “we shot at them.” The Greek has “their posterity perished” (see GKC 218 §76.f).
- Numbers 21:30 tc The relative pronoun “which” (אֲשֶׁר, ʾasher) posed a problem for the ancient scribes here, as indicated by the so-called extraordinary point (punta extraordinaria) over the letter ר (resh) of אֲשֶׁר. Smr and the LXX have “fire” (אֵשׁ, ʾesh) here (cf. NAB, NJB, RSV, NRSV). Some modern scholars emend the word to שֹׁאָה (shoʾah, “devastation”).
- Numbers 21:31 tn Heb “Israel.”
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